Tuesday, December 6, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (IST)

Ticket Information

This ticket allows one registrant to watch the proceedings live on Live Telecast - on the webpage. Proceedings will be video streamed for entire duration of conference from 9:30am to 5:00pm India Time.

Buterin was born in Moscow, Russia and lived in the area until the age of six when his parents emigrated to Canada in search of better employment opportunities. While in third grade of elementary school in Canada, Buterin was placed into a class for gifted children and started to understand that he was drawn to math, programming, and economics. He also had the ability to add three digit numbers in his head at twice the speed of his peers. In 2012, he obtained a Bronze Medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics. He attended the University of Waterloobut dropped out to work on bitcoin full-time.

Endeavors

Beginnings at Bitcoin Magazine

In September 2011, Buterin would accept to be the first co-founder and contribute as a leading writer to a new publication called Bitcoin Magazine.

In addition Buterin had written about bitcoin-related topics for other publications, including Bitcoin Weekly. Bitcoin Magazinein 2012 later began publishing a print edition and has been referred to as the first serious publication dedicated to cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin Magazine was then purchased by BTC Media, where Buterin continued to write until mid-2014.

In addition, he held a position on the editorial board of Ledger, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes full-length original research articles on the subjects of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Ethereum

He is a co-creator and inventor of Ethereum, described as a “decentralized mining network and software development platform rolled into one” that facilitates the creation of new cryptocurrencies and programs that share a single block chain (a cryptographic transaction ledger).

Buterin has contributed as a developer to other open source software projects. Some early examples are: Kryptokit, pybitcointools, multisig.info, and btckeysplit. He also contributed to DarkWallet by Cody Wilson, BitcoinPython libraries, and the cryptocurrency marketplace site Egora.

Unified Payments Interface (UPI), launched in April 2016 by the NPCI, is going live for 21 banks. A.P. Hota Ji spoke about UPI at Fintech Storm India Summit, Mumbai on 12 May 2016.

UPI offers instant, online bank payments, and is seen as a major change to the Indian financial sector. It enables banks to provide real-time payments through QR code enabled addresses and offers device fingerprinting for additional security.

Abhaya Prasad Hota, MD and CEO, NPCI, says: “Real-time sending and receiving money through a mobile application at such a scale on interoperable basis had not been attempted anywhere else in the world.”

For the last few months it has been on a pilot run mainly with employees and customers. After assessing the “success” of the pilot run, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gave their final approval for the public launch.

NPCI decided that only banks with 1,000 pilot customers, 5,000 transactions and a success rate of around 80% would be permitted to go live. It says such a threshold criteria helped the banks to refine their systems and procedure.

Arifa Khan

CEO Zero Field Labs

Founder Blockchain Council India

Arifa Khan is a London based Blockchain Researcher, a seasoned Banking & finance, strategy and

operations executive, with over 15 years experience in Investment banking,

She currently advises Government of India on infrastructure financing.

Her profile features in Femtech Leaders. (http://www.femtechleaders.com/europe/arifa-khan/ )

Arifa's latest project is setting up a Blockchain eco-system in India through a Suite of Blockchain Solution Providers for Indian market, Blockchain Excellence Centre, a Blockchain Startup Accelerator, and a fund for Blockchain Startups.

Andrew comes to ConsenSys with capital markets, technology, and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, Andrew worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereum.

Richard Knight is part of the Microsoft Global Black Belt team in Asia enabling Customers in their digital transformation journey to move to the Cloud using the capabilities of Microsoft Azure with a focus on new technologies and services. Lately, Richard has also been working with Customers, Partners and Startups to develop and build out use cases in the distributed ledged and blockchain space across industries from financial services to supply chain management.

Subash George Manuel is a qualified lawyer and international attorney with Masters in Law from UK and QLTT from Oxford Institute of Legal Practice. He is born entrepreneur with passion to perform and exceptional leadership qualities. Subash is a Blockchain legal consultant who does his research on smart contracts, distributed consensus networks and algorithmical governance from a legal, technological and sociological perspective.

Stuart Trusty

Expert in Super Computing & Bitcoin Miner

Stuart Trusty is an expert in high-performance computing (HPC) and supercomputing solutions since 2000, with a present focus of leveraging this technology in GPU-based cryptocurrency mining. Stuart has placed two supercomputers on the Top 500 Supercomputers roster, and his clients have included American Museum of Natural History, Livermore National Labs, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and an array of other top US universities and classified US Military installations, serviced from the industry-grade data center he owned and operated in Atlanta, USA.

Stuart produced a custom Linux-based cluster operating system in partnership with Los Alamos National Labs as well as the first global shared memory application for Linux clusters using the Dolphinics high-speed network adapters. Stuart produced the national website for the government of The Dominican Republic, and has consulted in China and Russia on computing installations. Stuart was founding technologist for Jack Ma Yun (Chairman, Alibaba) and trained him on the Internet from his original Internet Service Provider (ISP) Virtual Broadcast Network in 1994. He looks forward to utilizing his skills and experience to assist India in entering the arena of cryptocurrency on the world stage.

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Cale Teeter

Microsoft Azure

Cale Teeter is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft working with partners and ISVs in blockchain technology. He works closely with engineering groups in Azure and Developer Tools to enable the solutions that the partners are creating. Additionally, he works alongside Microsoft's business development team and engineering on the first party offerings that Microsoft is building in the blockchain space. Most recently, his efforts have been focused on bringing the Solidity language into the Visual Studio product. He has been a software developer for 15 years in NYC working with large enterprises, finance and insurance verticals and he is highly passionate about driving the blockchain efforts at Microsoft. He lives in New York City.

GBMiners is the first Bitcoin Mining Pool from India and Biggest from outside China. It is currently operating at 66+ PH/s (which is 4% of world's hashing power) GBMiners is a product of association of Amaze Mining & Blockchain Research Ltd and Darwin Labs.